Urban Landscape Structure of a Fast-Growing African City: The Case of Niamey (Niger)

Combining multivariable statistics and geostatistics with landscape metrics, we attempted to quantify the spatial pattern of urbanization in the city of Niamey, Niger. Landscape metrics provided local quantification of both landscape composition and physiognomy while the Principal Component Analysis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jean-Pierre Rossi, Gauthier Dobigny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-06-01
Series:Urban Science
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/3/2/63